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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Llnccm Untarad aa Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 7.50 Six Months 3.75 Three Months 1.95 One Month ................ ... One Week .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION I • FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Trangradlo Press - International Illustrated News - Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. - King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures GEORGIA AND TAXES. ,r ■ Calling lor an immediate retrenchment in the cost of gov ernment, Senator Charles D. Redwine, president of the State Senate, in an able address at the Auditoruim last evening point ed out the faults of the present tax system and simultaneously presented the fifteen mill tax amendment as a substitute to his hearers. Senator Redwine conclusively proved to his audience that Georgia is solvent. Assets in hand are far in excess of the state’s indebtedness, he showed. Starting three years ago with seven millions of dollars in debt, Georgia, today, does not owe a dollar! Who did it? How was it done? These questions are of vital concern to every citizen of the state. There is but one honest answer to each of them—Gene Talmadge. In addition + o being entirely out of debt, Georgia has on hand today in cash, the tidy sum of over three millions of dollars. Could this condition of financial sta blity been brought about by a wasteful or extravagant execu tive? Certainly not. The state of Georgia owns one piece of property, valued at twenty millions of dollars, a ribbon of steel rails that wind their way from Atlanta to Chattanooga. Georgia owns other valu able properties worth far more than her railroad, yet, her bond -5d indebtedness amounts to only four millions of dollars. Is there another state in the Union that can make as credit able a showing? With all of this, is there any other state in the United States where the average citizen has been the beneficiary of a reduction of his cost of living as he has in Georgia ? Call it by whatsoever name you may choose, political power, dictatorship, or what not, this bald fact stands out—the reduc tion in taxes have been such, and the Legislature has made possible for such further adjustments by the people, that, Geor gia today, guarantees the lowest tax rate of any state in the Union. It’s great to be a Georgian! That the citizens of Savannah and Chatham county are in tensely interested in the question of taxation was fully evi denced by the number and character of those attending the meeting at the auditorium last night. The treatment of the archaic and broken down system of ad valorem taxation existing in Georgia, the necessity for change looking toward a readjust ment of the burden that it be more equitably distributed, and, compulsory reduction in cost of government was never better handled. When this now antiquated system was first made into law in 1877, practically land was the only form of wealth, the land owner the only man with wealth to tax, cost of government was not excessive, consequently the owner of real estate bore the cost of his government uncomplainingly. In that time and day, little was known or thought of intangibles. The proposed fifteen mill overall amendment to the State Constitution simply means that the taxing authorities of the state, counties and cities will be strictly limited in the amount of taxes they may impose, not only on this class of property, but on all classes and must therefore practice that retrenchment and economy in the carrying on of government that the successful busiess man enforces in the private affairs of life. It means the much needed reformation of the present tax system of the state. In the state of Indiana where a limited tax law was passed, the real estate burden was reduced and there was a reduction in the cost of running the state of twenty millions of dollars. A great deal has been said and written relative to the ef fect of the limitation upon the school system of the state. As was pointed out, they seem to be pinning their hopes entirely upon the ad valorem tax system. As this system has almost en tirely broken down their hope is indeed a forlorn one. In this time and day, the masses are going to demand schools—good schools. They are interested in those charged with the educa tion of their children, in their just and prompt compensation. They will stand for no system, archaic, antiquated, or limited, old system or new, that would in the slightest impair or would fail to continually improve the school facilities of the state. The time has passed when self-serving and self-seeking politicians should seek to defeat the only opportunity the people have had, and, as one speaker tartly said, the only one they will have in the next forty years, to obtain reformation in the tax system of Georgia. Wake up citizens of Savannah and Chatham County! Reg ister, that you may vote! Wake up school teachers Realize this, you are paid by the taxpayers—you get your pay regularly when taxes are paid. The present system has miserably failed as wit ness the long list of delinquent taxpayers. The Fifteen Mill Overall Limitation Law may not be better, it certainly cannot be worse than the present law. Register and vote. i Facto graphs ! ' Lightning sometimes leaves prints of the bodies of persons it strikes. Many cases have been recorded where actual Images of trees, ships and other objects appear to be photo graph on the person’s body, but scientists declare that the marks left by the passage of a bolt of lightning through a person’s body are caused by the resultant burns. It is purely accident that these scars or burns definitely resemble objects. At one time the common variety of house cat was held in reverence by residents of the delta of the Nile. It is believed that their worship of their ancestor of the common alley cat was due to the part played by cats in destroying field mice that threat ened all the grain in the delta. • • • There is a county in the United States with an area almost as large as the combined areas of Massachu setts and Maryland. It is San Ber nardino county in California, having an area of 20,174 square miles. • • • * Zbe term "ecoHe” tak?s its origin PRESIDENTIAL CLOSEUPS Democrats, in 1928, accused Re publicans of carrying on a “whisper ing campaign” against their candid ate for president, Gov. Alfred E. Smith and many people believe that that manner of campaign was some thing new under the political sun. But it wasn’t new. The campaign of 1908 was “a whispering cam paign," according to the then Repub lican candidate for president, Judge Wiliam Howard Taft, who declared, publicly, that it was being conducted in the interest of Bryan by no less a personage than Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. ONE MINUTE PULPIT And above all things have fer vent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins—l Peter 4:8. from the two Chinese words—“koo” meaning strength, and “lee” meaning to hire. Camera Glances in the Life of Congressman James W. Wadsworth I- - "■■■—- ■ --=^—. - : ,.y i lOn the beach with Mrs. Wadsworth 1 El/ -J Aft H * will : gPm ft r • IMBS Character studies | " I MF Ok I .WF Wkjß * \ j ■ if W* ■ - r 11 •a* TREASURY PLAN FOR BROADENING INCOME LEVY IS DISCLOSED -WORLD AT A GLANCE— SPEEDY G. O. P. MEET If Eastern Leaders Agree on Support WITH NO SHARP FIGHTS By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer “HOW MANY DAYS will the Republican national convention in Cleveland last?” we are asked. That is impossible to answer. The first day—June 9 —will be given over to organization. The keynote speech will not be made till night—in order to catch the audience. A platform will have to be writ ten. The most difficult planks to compose will be those over farm Then there will be the nomina aid, labor and relief, tions. This writer has expressed his belief that there will not be much of a fight. He believes the Hines- Mills group from New York, the Reed group from Pennsylvania and the Ohio group will agree quitely to swing their support to the man with the most delegates. That man will be Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas. They may as quickly decide on Representative James W. Wads worth of New York for the vice presidential nomination. This writer also has said that the big industrialists have been in favor of Senator Arthur H, Van denberg of Michigan. But they are equally certain to accept Governor Landon if he comes to the conven tion with a large number of votes. If this reasoning is correct, the convention should be ended within four days. The belief prevails there will not be much fighting on the floor. • « • KNOX’S SHOWING Colonel Frank Knox’s showing in Illinois against Senator William E. Borah dismays many who had counted on him. The margin was too narrow for a candidate in his own state. In fact, Presid it Roosevelt, who polled half a mi n more votes on the Democratic i that Knox and Borah combined on ttie Republi can side, proved th* real surprise SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT -COPYRIGHT 1936, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION" 11 ■■ ■ -- ' ■wg —-7 ‘ ■ —. One, of um 1 que tqirfs / in world is -the -Troglodytes * ENTIRE VILLAGES LIVE UNDERGROUND ... C IN <HE SAHARA DESERT- THEIR. burrow* --sy Civilization -turned / FOR lilE. xnd form -two - \ X ,RoH |M "™ E arrowheais STORY HOMES - (TATTLE,\ ZT ° F SOUTft SEA GOAT'S AND STORES oF \ ISLAND NATIVES SPEARS PROVISIONS ARE ALSO \ AND ARROWS HAVE BEE.N KEPT IN, TfcESE- \ BeMeN FROM CANNON LEFT UNDERGROUND \ J W BY THE PORTUGUESE- iNTttE- M Cicero iW N V PwhWSfefl ® ! W dF ARTIFICIAI •I Fjt’GHT, Tapers % 11 V e . AND GREASE f_ kJ wick lamp;- IDEAS IN JFSISiKrI did 1 K JSf 7, <IMON B ? UV^ R / Nor CHANGE FOR /r \ <4EOPGE WASHINGTON oF SoifTH 2,000 YEARS r’W AMERICA., ALL DRESSED UP FI / ► on 1930 VENELUEXA STAMP SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1936 in Illinois. The Republicans are viewing this (in private) with a great deal of gloom. * • * CALLING ’EM OFF Republican strategists evidently are eager to disown the duPonts, Raskobs, Sloans of the Liberty League group. It does not seem possible that one group of industrialists could become involved in so many kick back organizations, through donat ing money. That seems to be the private opinion of many on the G. O. P. side. Every person who believes he can organize some anti-New Deal organization evidently has been able to get money from the Liberty league backers. And what occurs? The organizers go about their bus iness so crudely that their enter prises soon react against not only their backers but the Republicans. And a Democratic majority in the senate brings out the sordid de tails to the last iota. It is in vain the Republicans point out that until a few years ago John J. Raskob and Jouett Shouse were of the Democratic high command. For, today, they are very much against the New Deal Democratic high command. Money chieftains are being warned by Republican leaders a gainst financing minor vendetti a gainst President Roosevelt. The money is needed for the “big push”. Millions will be requested by leaders in the big doubtful states. WAS DADDY JEALOUS? NEW LONDON, Conn., (TP)— Little 11-year-old Janice Monroe and her father were fishing in Niantic River. Alice was using a light rod. Her line was baited for small sunfish. Her father, Floyd Monroe, was casting with special bass equip ment. Alice caught a thiriten pound bass —one of the best catches in years. You’re T elling Me? By WILLIAM RITT American sports teach us unsel fishness ,says a noted educator. Oh, yeah? Did you ever see a player who didn’t want to win? When a parent tells you how welcome the new baby is you do not know whether he is thinking of additional income tax exemp tion or additional federal relief. • * • The reformer’s motto is “Live and let live—the way I live.” ♦ » » Statesmen would not need to work so hard during political ' campaigns if they could only re member not to forget the voters they promised to remember last election day. • • • Definition frz: super luxury liner: a boat so big ki cannot possibly make a profit. • • • Now that the diamond season is already a week old we may scon expect weather good enough in which to play baseball. A GOOD COLLEGE JOKE “You in the back of the room, what was the date of the signing of the Magna Carta?” “I dunno.” “You don’t, eh? Well, let’s try something else. Who was Bonny Prince Charley?” “I dunno.’’ “Well, then, can you tell me what the Tennis Court Oath was?” “I dunno.” “You don’t! I assigned this stuff last Friday. What were you doing last night?” “I was out drinking beer with some friends." “You were! What audacity to stand there and tell me a thing like that! How do you ever expect to pass this course?” “Wai, I don’t, mister. You see, I just come in to fix the radiator." WIFE PRESER VERS A flannel cloth dipped in salt and whiting is effectiv x in cleaning knife handles, glasses and crockery. -WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— SMALL WAGE EARNER HIT By Reducing Exemption Amounts IN PROPOSED TAX PLAN By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Staff Press Writer WASHINGTON, April 24—The treasury department’s office of re search and statistics has on hand the draft of a plan to “broaden the income tax base”, as fiscal experts express it. It is not a bill, ready to be in troduced in congress. It is. how ever, the raw material for one. I happened to have seen it. It will not get out of the treas ury department’s statistical office ahead of election day. That is a certainty. Nevertheless, it hints at what the statistical folk have sim mering in the back of their heads, with a view to the next congres sional session—AFTEß election, if their side wins it. ♦ • • EXEMPTION CUTS The tentative scheme is to reduce the unmarried man’s income tax exemption to SSOO and the married man’s exemption to SI,OOO. That is to say, the bachelor will be taxed on everything he makes above $500; the benedict on every thing above SI,OOO. A great many additional details are involved scarcely anything is more com plicated than income taxation) but that is the nub of the program. I offer this information as a bit of news, and, I think, exclusive news, rather than as a columnist’s reflections It seems to me it should be interesting to a sizable proportion of the citizenry. • » • HUGE RESERVOIR There is no question that a tax on all families above the SI,OOO mark (not to mention the SSOO bachelors) would bring a lot of money into Uncle Sam’s treasury. A treasury statistical wizard es timated to me that approximately 87 per cent of the country’s in comes are below $2,500. NOT-In the News iLAUGHS IN “STORE TEETH’’ COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION By WORTH CHENEY Most of us strive for that position in life whsn we will be in comfort able circumstances or wealthy. As you probably know ,it takes some peo ple an entire lifetime to attain eith er goal, while the vast majority of such aspiring souls never do realize their ambitions. But there are a rare few to whom making a fortune is no trick at all. They seem to have the incredible ability of becoming rich overnight. They have no trouble making money; their difficulty is in keeping it. Perhaps you have heard of those fortunate, or unfortunate, individuals Wall Street has known several men who have gone from poverty to wealth, back to poverty and reinrn ing to wealth again in a comparative ly few yers. But we doubt if the rc ord of any Wall Street can match that of George Blnks, British finan cier. Binks originally was a htoel owner. Profiting considerably in that ven ture. he became associated with some other men in a nitrate concern. The returns from the investment were enormous: in one deal Binks cleared a cold million dollars. But scarcely a year later, after sud den and unavoidable loses, Binks was flat broke. It was only through the aid of friends that he was saved from bankruptcy. He carried on, this time putting his money in a tin company. The com cem prospered and within three years he was a millionaire once more With the profits from that he bought an Australian gold mine and he grew steadily richer. Then the gold vein petered out, and Binks found himself broke once more! Although past 50, he started out once more, this time in his first love, the hotel business. Again the touch of his hand was one of a Midas, and his wealth increased. But it wasn’t long before he met reverses and his business failed. That was his last venture; he died a short time later—absolutely penni less! DALE H. says he saw this sign on the bulletin board of a small town church: “The quarterly meetings of the deacons will henceforth be held Obviously, if all these small fry are to be caught (from SSOO or $1,000) and $2,500, the gross yield will be enormous. It will come in in nickels, dimes, ’‘simoleonsf, and an occasional “V” or “sawbuck", but it will be a handsome total. It isn’t a “soak the rich” con cept, anyway. ♦ ♦ * HOW IT WORKS Theoretically an income tax seems to be fair; it appears to put the load upon the shoulders which are best able to carry it. Unluckily it doesn’t work out that way in practice. As I previously have related, I paid my income tax in the same year that J. P. Morgan did not pay one—in this county (he did in Eng land). * • • MOST EVIDENT TAX In one respect, however, income taxation has undeniable merit. Os all levies, it is the most evi dent and offensive; those who are taxed know it, are resentful, and ask how their money is being spent—or wasted . Governmental authority conse quently is afraid of it. It is a last resource, but a des perately pressed government sees no hope except to resort to it. It will not resort to it until after election, however, ♦ ♦ ♦ BUSINESS CAUTIOUS I talked, the other day, with a very big man in the meat packing industry. “Business,” he said, “is pretty good, but how do we dare to ex pand, with the possibility of a whole change in the social system confronting us? “Maybe changes will benefit the future; but what about our stock holders now?” every six weeks instead of semi annually, as formerly.” A BETTER one still, to our way of thinking, is this: "DO YOU KNOW WHAT HELL IS?” ‘‘Come and hear our new pastor Sunday night.” Contract Bridge BOTH TO BLAME SINGULAR coincidents in bridge are numerous. Here is one that occurred the other evening. With in an hour, sitting in the same pos ition at the table, the same part ner and I were guilty of similar faults, costing us one game and one smal Islam, after his opening bid of 1-No-Trump, made on two very similar hands. I regret that the more expensive! error was more my mistake than my part ner's. ♦AK J 6 V A J 10 ♦K 7 2 ♦ KJ9 ♦ 8 4 495 VK63 *'•.> 9 8 5 42 ♦AQ 85 £ U) ♦JIO 9 4 S. * A Q 2 ♦8 5 3 ♦ Q 10 7 3 2 >Q 7 ♦ 63 A 10 7 6 4 North dealt. He had a choice be tween an opening bid of 1-Spade and 1-No Trump. Either would have been correct. He chose 1-No Trump. 1 made my weak take-out call of 2-Spades. We were not. vul nerable. Had he bid either 3-Spadas or 3-No Trumps 1 would have gone My New York’ By; James>AsweU; NEW YORK, April 24.—Potpourri: Paul Draper, the only one of the hoofing marvels whose dancing high brow critics say has an “intelligent” implication. . . . But that sort of verbal hair-splitting is over my head. . . . He’s a nimble fellow, with elo quent fast feet. . . . George Tapps, Draper and Ray Bolger are the danc ing tops in this opinion, Astaire a runner-up. . . . My vote for the slickest headwaiter in town: Area! at the Rockefeller Center Rainbow Room. ... Bedlam: Broadway in the Forties at 3 a.m. when the taxi dance halls let out. . . . But hackmen are gloomy because fast buses will whisk fans to the Polo Grounds and the World series this summer at a nickel a head. . . . There are still five top hatted drivers clinging to the horse and-buggy era in front of the Plaza hotel. ... A world-wanderer, re turning after 20 years, spoke to one of these silvered coachmen the other day, lightly: “Hello! Are you going to live forever?” . . . The retort came sadly: “Sometimes 1 think I already have.” . . . Richard Dix, they tell me, holds all records in cinemaland for play ing opposite young women who later become stars. ... A partial list: Esther Ralston, Bebe Daniels, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Allen and Margot Grahame . . This has been a season remark able for the paucity of new name comedians rising in theaters and night clubs. . . . Benny Field’s not able doings at the Hollywood I m aware of—but he, after all, is an old timer. . . . • • ♦ Add Broadway double lives. Claudia Morgan, an actress of increasingly appreciated talents, has important roles in two plays, riming simultane ously. . . . She appears in the first and third acts of “□©‘•Respondent Unknown” —a delectable comedy, by the way, which should be on your list cf plays to see during your sum mer visit here —and she appears in the second act of “Call It a Day, ’ another deserving hit. . . . “Reno in the Fall,” a picture just announced by Universal, will make good double billing with “Paris in Spring” . . • Vernon . Duke, who whites catch popular tunes, uses his real name for serious music he does for the “Ballet Russe”. . . . He. is Vladimir Dukelsky. . . . Incidently the girls of the Russian troupe, which is having its best seasen in New York after a $1,000,000 tour, eat nothing but liquids all day long—and then gorge after each performance. . Traveling, they go for choco late bars and soft drinks. ... • * • Chorines from half a dozen shows and clubs are to be found along Broadway any early a.m. after work ing hours playing those bagatelle games and nickel-to-see-the-crane clutch gadets. . . . Nifty: Paul Fre man’s contribution to the walls of “21” the eatery—a portrait of a beau tiful girl with the caption, ‘‘Free. White and 21” . . . Few know that the late Howard Thurston, the magi cian.., studied to become a medical missionary. . . • But he ran away from home at 14i to be a magician, and the fever was* not to be cured. Notation: For the first time in my years in Manhattan I saw a Chinese barking in Times Square the other night in behalf of a tourists’ tour by bus of Chinatown. Most of the other whooper-uppers are Greeks and Italians. All Os Us By MARSHAL MASLIN IF I LIVE TO BE A HUNDRED I’VE THOUGHT it all out ... I know just what I’m going to say to the newspaper boys when I’m a hun dred years old. “Boys,” I’ll say to the young fel lows, “you see before you a perfect example of what can be done if a man sets his heart on it and lives according to a set program. “I owe my age, my physi cal sprightliness, my mental alert ness to the fact that I always ate what was good for me and never in dulged my appetite. » “I am alive in this exciting year of 1995 because I never worried, never fussed about the little irritations of life, never allowed the ephemeral insects of human conduct to upset my calm spirit. “I am living today because I have always had eight hours of sleep a night, always took my morning and evening exercises, never ate too much, always took a cold bath every morn ing. was moderate in all things. “Boys, you see me here today be cause I never lost my temper when life went wrong . iJo matter what happened, I kept my sweet disposi tion unsmutched by bitterness and melancholy. “I owe my longevity—my vivacity, if you wish a better word—to my strong will, to my life-long absent tion from cigarettes, coffee and chew ing tobacco. “In closing, gentlemen, I wish to assure you that any of you, if you follow my program, will also be able to enjoy a century of serene ex istence ” • * * The newspaper boys will take care ful notes and print everything I say in the paper—because I will be a hundred years old . . . And none of my friends will be around to testify that the only scrap of truth in the interview will be my statement that —I never chewed tobacco. MR. COBURN GAINS The condition of Garvin J. Cobum whi is very ill with pneumonia at the Central of Georgia hospital, was re ported today as showing some im provemen. Mr. Coburn is an employe of the Savannah Sugar Refinery. 4-Spades. He bid only 2-No Trumps on a very powerful hand. When I went 3-Spades he let the call die. As he had an optional opening bid of 1-Spade, both of us thought Insert Cut afterwards that he should have either bid game at no trumps or spades. In playing the hand there were lost one diamond trick and two club tricks, giving us game.